New set of school-standard rules has educators baffled, uncertain

Common Core has chaotic beginning.

11:25 PM,
Sep. 22, 2013

Written by

Ashley A. Smith
| asmith@news-press.com

They've been called everything from leftist indoctrination to another tool meant to debase teachers and public education.

Others say Common Core State Standards will help students by holding them to challenging criteria and will give districts a way to compare apples to apples with peers across the nation.

Next school year, Common Core will apply at every grade level in the state and many schools have spent years training teachers and preparing students to meet those standards, but now some want to reverse course. ...